Securing device for clothing



Oct. 6, 1931. 5 DAVlD 1,826,167

SECURING DEVICE FOR CLOTHING Filed Oct. 5, 1930 INVENTOR llli'l I Patented Oct. 6, 1931 UNITED STATES SARA DAVID, 01 WEST VIEW, BENNSYLVANIA sncunme DEVICE FOR CLOTHING Application filed October 8, 1930. Serial No. 486,114.

My invention consists in a securing device for clothing, and is useful particularly 1n holding an undergarment in place beneath an outer garment. It is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which the device 1s shown in side elevation.

The device includes a safety-pin '1, a snapfastener consisting of the parts 2 and 3, and a loop-forming member 41, 42. i

The safety-pin is essentially the safetypin of familiar construction, and as such is shown in the drawing. The snap-fastener is essentially of familiar type, and includes a socket with laterally yielding rim, and a stud adapted to enter the socket and to be held in place in the socket by the yielding run. The socket part is the part indicated by the numeral 3, and the stud part is the part indicated by 2. Such parts, ordinarily, are provided with marginal holes, by whichthey are sewed to garments. I do not so secure them, and accordingly no such holes are shown.

The loop-forming member 41, 42 consists of two suitable equal lengths of flexible material. In this instance I show it to be formed of a chain, and in the practical embodiment which I have used this is a chain of sixteen links to the inch. These two lengths of chain are connected to the ends of the safety-pin, and each of them carries at its other end one of the two parts 2 and 3 which make up the snap-fastener.

The safety-pin is of usual construction, and includes a bar, to which the number 1 is immediately applied, and to this bar, at one end, the pointed shank 13 is pivoted. This pivoting is ordinarily effected by making bar and shank of one length of wire, coiled to a spiral midway its length. The opposite end of the bar is formed'as or provided with a keeper 11, within which the pointed end of shank 13 may be brought and retained by the spring tension of the spiral coil alluded to. The bar 1 and the shank 13 swing angularly in their common plane. The keeper 11 of the safety-pin is perforate and one part 41 of the loop-forming member is linked to the perforate keeper; the other part 42 is linked to the coil of the safety-pin.

The device is primarily intended for securing in place beneath an outer garment the shoulder straps of an undergarment of womens wear. In use, the safety-pin may be pinned to-the outer garment, and this will ordinarily be done through the shoulder seam and from their side, so that the body of the safety-pin remains quite invisible on the outside. The chain is then looped about the shoulder strap of the undergarment, and the parts of the snap-fastener are snapped together. When the shoulder strap of the undergarment has so been looped within the loop-forming member of the device, it is held against slipping down in an objectionable way. It is not necessary to unpin the device in undressing; it is suflicient merely to open the snap-fastener. If the outer garment is a washable garment, the whole device may be removed by unpinning it before the article goes to the wash. I do not limit myself to particular dimensions, but in an embodiment of the invention which I have employed with success, the safety-pin is of an inch long, and the chain is 3 inches long.

The device in the form and of the proportions given is particularly serviceable, in that it may be easily applied and used. With such minute articles, it is apt to be a difficult matter to manipulate them; the small parts elude the touch and grasp of the fingers of the user. The snap-fastener parts 2 and 3 are, as they are shown to be, relatively large, and relatively heavy, as compared w1th the links of the chain on which they are hung; they are easily grasped; it is an easy matter to determine by touch the faces of the snap parts' which are to be brought together to close the fastening; it is an easy matter to take them in the fingers, to bring them properly together and to secure them together and to release them; and, since these fastener parts are carried at the ends of relatively light chain parts of equal length, it is an eas matter to grasp the fastenerparts and to ring them together. All this may be done by the sense of touch alone, and easily done.

I claim as my invention:

A securing device for clothing including a safety pin, two equal lengths of chain of links 01:" relatively small diameter and of light weight, secured one to each of the two ends of the safety pin, and a snap fastener composed of two complementary parts of relatively large diameter and great Weight, as compared With the links of the chain, secured one part to each of the lengths of chain at the otherwise free ends thereof In testimony Whereoi I have hereunto set my hand.

- ARA EAVED. 

